There will never be a filmgoing experience like watching Cats (2019) in a full theater for the first time ever again. Like I don't just mean 'haha it's a bad movie', it stands alone as its own type of bad movie, so horrible and yet so committed to what it is and so earnestly inhabiting itself, something unique that could only be fully experienced uninitiated and in an audience.
Best moments were
Much of the initially rowdy audience growing solemn and quiet as it sunk in that the thing that is Cats (2019) was happening
Dead silence as the film paused for audience laughter whenever Rebel Wilson and/or James Corden were improving
Uncomfortable laughter that turned cathartic and uproarious as Old Deuteronomy addressed the audience for like 10 minutes straight after we were all pretty sure this thing was ending
Palpable fear and hushed murmurs filling the theater when the movie threatened to show us its version of a dog

















